The difference between the history given in Kings and Chronicles

The Books of Kings have given us the general and public history
of God's government in Israel; and, from Rehoboam to Zedekiah, the
history of the kings of Israel -- a history in which the result of
the fall of the kingly power is manifested in presence of God's
long-suffering. That which is said in these books respecting Judah
only extends to the connection of Judah with the house of Israel
during this period. The Books of Chronicles give us the history of
the same period under another aspect (that is, that of blessing and
of the grace of God); and, more particularly, they give us the
history of the house of David with respect to which this grace was
manifested. We shall see this verified in a multitude of
instances.

God's history of the people preserved

These Books, written or drawn up after the captivity (see 1
Chron. 6: 15), preserve God's history of His people, recorded by
the Holy Ghost, as He loved to remember it, exhibiting only such
faults as require to be known in order to understand the
instructions of His grace.

God's record of names

He records at the same time the names of those who had gone
through the trials mentioned in this history without being blotted
out of the book. Here indeed it is but the outward figure of this
blessed memorial of the people of His grace; but in fact this is
what we find here. All Israel is not there; but all are not Israel
who are of Israel. At the same time the Spirit of God goes farther
back, and gives us the genealogy from Adam of the generation
blessed by grace according to the sovereignty of God, with that
which belonged to it outwardly, or after the flesh. He puts into
relief, sufficiently to make it apparent, the part owned in grace,
which stood externally in relationship with that which was merely
outward and natural; putting always that which is natural first,
as the apostle tells us.